After months of planning, which included the removal of Kuzminov’s parents from Russia to Ukraine, he finally made his move in August, flying the helicopter at a low altitude in radio silence mode across the border and into Ukrainian territory.
Was happy to read about his family getting out first. Always worry about that with russia, china, and north korea.
What a fucking badass.
They better put a good fucking security detail on this guy
I was thinking this, why in the hell would they put this guy on broadcast everywhere on the news?
Stating the obvious, propaganda. I just hope he’s OK with it and is kept safe in the process.
It’s so that they show they haven’t just pulled a name off a dead Russian body and fabricated an informant.
Honestly good Job! You will be remembered for being on the right Side of history!
Putting him on TV is a bad fucking idea. That must discourage a lot of Russian soldiers thinking about doing the same.
Could be that Russia’s response to this information might cause themselves more harm than it will affect future defectors, even if it prevents as many from doing so. There’s also the question about how safe it is to accept Russian defectors since any of them could be double agents, so maybe Ukraine isn’t that worried about cutting them off.
Or maybe they want to flush out Russian assassins be offering a tantalizing political target instead of them going after more strategic ones.
Could be that Russia’s response to this information might cause themselves more harm than it will affect future defectors
Yeah, that occurred to me as well. Provoke an atmosphere of suspicion, don’t trust each other, even perhaps encourage cases of friendly fire.
It’s possible that the amount of defectors isn’t actually close to being important and the few real cases are more useful as psyops.
